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The National Spelling Bee was held yesterday and the winner correctly spelled Guetapens. If you don’t feel like trying to learn to spell some of the words used in the bee, why not read about spelling bees instead?

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pewinternet:

88% of American adults have a cell phone, 57% have a laptop, 19% own an e-book reader, and 19% have a tablet computer; about six in ten adults (63%) go online wirelessly with one of those devices.

Among cell phone owners, 53% own a smartphone as of February 2012. This means that 46% of all…

Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the original Indiana Jones, Archaeologist Howard Carter, who discovered the tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun. Read about it in his own words in this item from our collection:

The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen / by Howard Carter and A. C. Mace ; with a new introd. by Jon Manchip White.  

DT87.5.C4 1977

Obviously, Will, Age 8, creator of the lego video must have read it :)

can’t resist. must share.

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newsweek:

Truth.

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We admit it, our haiku is really bad. Come to the library today at noon for the opening of our haiku exhibit and see and hear some great haiku and celebrate Camden’s own Nick Virgilio.

article in Philadelphia City Paper on Nick Virgilio 

In celebration of the opening of our American Haiku Collection and all that is Rutgers Camden, we invite you to send us your own haiku about what Rutgers Camden means to you and what makes it great, bonus if you inlcude the library!

Post it on our FB wall (https://www.facebook.com/PaulRobesonLibrary), reply to us on Twitter (@RobesonLibrary), or send it librarian Katie Anderson: katie.anderson@camden.rutgers.edu.

From Rutgers Media Relations: Photo- Rutgers Camden student Elizabeth Moser is curating an exhibition on contemporary haiku poets.

Read more about the collection, reception and book launch below:

Small and Mighty Words: Haiku by Late Camden Poet Given New Life on April 27